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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328091
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Unemployment duration in Germany : individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment
Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006
Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404769
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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility : evidence from the entire wage distribution
Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998
We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442286
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What attracts human capital? : Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie (contributor) - 2006
of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial …. Regional differentials in non-pecuniary assets slightly contribute to spatial sorting processes in Germany. Such differences in … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003370038
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Local labor market size and qualification mismatch
Berlingieri, Francesco - 2017
Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752572
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Wage convergence and inequality after unification : (East) Germany in transition
Gernandt, Johannes (contributor);  … - 2008
Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003702975
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East-West German wage convergence - how far have we got?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...
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Apprentice poaching in regional labor markets
Stockinger, Bastian; Zwick, Thomas - 2017
A number of studies have found that firms provide less training if they are located in regions with strong labor market competition. This finding is usually interpreted as evidence of a higher risk of poaching in these regions. Yet, there is no direct evidence that regional competition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607943
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Three approaches to the evaluation of active labour market policy in East Germany using regional data
Hagen, Tobias - 2003
Using different regional data sources for East Germany the three largest active labour market policy (ALMP) programmes … regional job seeker rates. A dynamic labour demand estimation indicates that PT has no effects on employment and JCS leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448477
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A model of welfare competition with evidence from AFDC
Saavedra, Luz Amparo - 1999
In this paper, we test empirically for strategic behaviour among the states using the cash support program Aid to Families with Dependant Children (AFDC). To motivate the empirical work, we adept Wildasin´s [41] model of income redistribution to a model of "interjurisdictional welfare...
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